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To all you people here that said "don't worry about writing to the SSD" :P!

It died at 6 months old! [2 days ago]

They are closed for the holiday, so I can't do crap about it...

NOW, my machine is pitifully slow, and all my work was lost...

Mine has been under constant usage ... and by that I mean for all practical purposes running 24/7 for just over a year now.
I took no steps to reduce read/writes, I moved nothing to other drives and didn't do any of the prep most people recommend for these drives.

After all that abuse it's just fine.
I did actually have 2 mechanical drives die in that same time period. I don't know if you got a dud or bought a bad model or what.
The truth of the matter though is that a typical ssd should be reliable for around 5 years. Which is basically the same I would expect from a old mechanical drive. ...and while both are fully capable of lasting longer. I really don't expect much more than that from them.

That being said. Sorry about the loss of your data, I know that hurts.
ALWAYS, have at least two copies of important stuff.
I tend to keep my important stuff on an external, just in case the computer happens to explode or something.

PARTIALLY, I'm adding this to answer your question, partially, I'm adding it so I can point to it later if anybody asks me in the future.

ALL My Docs, Music, Photos, Favorites, & Desktop files sit on my server, the data loss is restricted to the setup of the OS itself. My server makes monthly backups of folders for a second copy. My Virtual XP sat on another drive, so I didn't even lose that. [Now, someone here get my TV to work: https://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-c...-properly.html ]

Some people have pointed out that my drives are probably NOT SATA I, but they are old, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are. I'm not used to seeing the "Welcome" screen with that little circle during the boot...

The most important lesson you should have learned is that one has to make frequent images to be prepared for such a disaster case. I image 3x per week. When one of my 6 SSDs dies, I am prepared. But they seem to enjoy a good life - some since nearly 4 years.

The most important lesson you should have learned is that one has to make frequent images to be prepared for such a disaster case. I image 3x per week. When one of my 6 SSDs dies, I am prepared. But they seem to enjoy a good life - some since nearly 4 years.

3 images a week!?!?!? What do you do to your machine to change it that much? [Or are your critical folders on the boot drive too?]

My user files are in a seperate partition. But I am on the PC appr. 6 hours per day (and no gaming which I hate). A lot of things change all the time - both in the system and in the data partitions.

I used to make an image each day - at boot. But found that this was a bit of an overkill. The system images in 6 minutes and the data in 8-10 minutes depending which disk I use for the images. I have Satas, eSatas and USB3 as choices.

My user files are in a seperate partition. But I am on the PC appr. 6 hours per day (and no gaming which I hate). A lot of things change all the time - both in the system and in the data partitions.

I used to make an image each day - at boot. But found that this was a bit of an overkill. The system images in 6 minutes and the data in 8-10 minutes depending which disk I use for the images. I have Satas, eSatas and USB3 as choices.

How did you do images at boot?

I never understood the point of multiple partitions on a disk. OK, Viruses that focus on a drive usually focus on C:\, but drive issues usually take out all partition. EVERY machine I have built had a single partition on the drive[s] because of this. Can you explain?

My SSD died!

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Need to get a new hard drive to replace the dead one. Do I start with a new OS system? I want...

General Discussion

HD died?My second hard drive no longer appears in the windows.
And when I'm starting the windows appears this:
Disk Offline.
http://puu.sh/gLJzI/47e3ed7b45.jpg
Its recover it?

Hardware & Devices

C: drive diedI built a SB running Win 7 Home and the Samsung 103SJ decided to go on a long vacation.
Luckily I had a Seagate Barracuda 1TB ST31000524AS brand new at home and took out the Samsung and did a reinstall.
Now I am left with an error message that comes up on boot and it is to do with a driver...

Installation & Setup

Today XP DiedToday I finally decided that it was time for XP to go away. For some reason I have been attempting to make myself believe it was still a necessary OS, albeit it just wasn't happening. With the ability to run Vista in a VM, along with a copy of Win 7 32 bit it just didn't make a bit of sense to...